{"id":5076,"date":"2024-10-18T01:42:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T01:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2024-10-18T01:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T01:46:44","slug":"it-was-just-a-rug-police-conclude-search-after-columbus-womans-backyard-discovery-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/it-was-just-a-rug-police-conclude-search-after-columbus-womans-backyard-discovery-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;It was just a rug&rsquo;: Police conclude search after Columbus woman&rsquo;s backyard discovery goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This story has been updated to add new information.\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2212 Viral TikTok videos showing a rug&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/bit.ly%5C/4dxlFbE%5C%22">found buried in a Columbus woman&rsquo;s backyard triggered&nbsp;a police investigation and social media fears that a dead body would be found, but Friday afternoon the search concluded with nothing found.\n\n\n\n<p><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.tiktok.com%5C/@katiesantry%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"' rel='\"noreferrer' noopener>Katie Santry&nbsp;was digging holes for a fence in her backyard when she struck what appeared to be a buried rug, she said in a video posted to TikTok earlier this week. She also joked that her house might be haunted, saying her laptop had been broken and items were misplaced.\n\n\n\n<p><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.tiktok.com%5C/@katiesantry%5C/video%5C/7420108701937274155?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7386801862433408558%5C%22">Santry&rsquo;s initial video has over 3 million views, and her entire chain of more than 20 clips about the rug mystery has garnered over 100 million views.<br>\n\n\n\n<p>Santry again went live on TikTok after the search concluded, recapping the saga to more than 100,000 viewers.\n\n\n\n</p><p>&ldquo;It was just a rug,&rdquo; Santry said during the live stream Friday afternoon.https:\/\/www.usatodaynetworkservice.com\/tangstatic\/html\/ntan\/sf-q1a2z330306dc3.min.html\n\n\n\n</p><p>Concerns grew when two cadaver dogs alerted to potential human remains in Santry&rsquo;s backyard Thursday.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Police dug in Santry&rsquo;s yard Friday and ultimately brought in an excavator, but a Columbus Division of Police spokeswoman said police found &ldquo;some remnants of a rug material.&rdquo;\n\n\n\n</p><p>Friday&rsquo;s investigation brought with it significant police and media presence at the cul de sac in front of Santry&rsquo;s house. A few groups of curious neighbors and onlookers gathered nearby, filming videos and discussing updates.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Cars slowed down as they drove by, and many of the drivers held their phones out their windows to take pictures and videos.\n\n\n\n</p><h2 class='\"wp-block-heading\"'>Columbus police get involved\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image' is-resized><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.aberdeennews.com%5C/gcdn%5C/authoring%5C/authoring-images%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/04%5C/NCOD%5C/75511814007-media-2.jpg?width=660&amp;height=495&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp%5C%22" alt='\"Columbus' police vehicles at the scene of an investigation into claims that a rug believed to possibly contain body was found in back yard. style='\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333;width:840px;height:auto\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>Several TikTok users urged Santry to contact the police as her videos went viral, and Columbus police visited the property Thursday.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Santry streamed the investigation on TikTok live, including the moments when two cadaver dogs sat down after sniffing a section of the yard. Cadaver dogs are often trained to sit to signal they have discovered human remains. Santry said at least 100,000 people watched the livestream.\n\n\n\n</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m still just hoping maybe someone just had a bloody nose on a rug and buried it,&rdquo; she wrote in a caption.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Watson said the dogs could have alerted to a variety of things.\n\n\n\n</p><p>&ldquo;It could be body oil,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;It could be sweat. It could be it could be blood, like maybe a nick or a paper cut, something&rsquo;s as insignificant as that. So at this time, we don&rsquo;t know what we&rsquo;re looking at.&rdquo;\n\n\n\n</p><p>Get the&nbsp;The Square Deal&nbsp;newsletter in your inbox.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Our community&rsquo;s ideas and business news\n\n\n\n</p><p>Delivery: MonthlyYour Email\n\n\n\n</p><h2 class='\"wp-block-heading\"'>Who are the previous owners of Katie Santry&rsquo;s house?\n\n\n\n</h2><p>The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network, contacted the previous owner of the house \u2013 a 95-year-old Ohio resident \u2013 who said police called his family Thursday. He said that he and his wife did a lot of gardening, and he wondered if maybe they had discovered a burlap bag buried by mistake.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n</p><p>He added that they&rsquo;re both perplexed by the whole ordeal and said the attention has been upsetting to his wife.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cThe police called us yesterday, and they also asked some questions,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They talked to my son too. None of us could remember anything about what was buried.\u201d&nbsp;\n\n\n\n</p><p>He added: \u201cI just hope that if there\u2019s treasure there \u2026 I hope they get lucky.\u201d\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-video\"'><video controls src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/runeecho.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/SnapTik-dot-Kim-51b929fad7ef316373d27e7a6934ee0c.mp4%5C%22">\n\n\n\n<h2 class='\"wp-block-heading\"'>Why are police investigating?\n\n\n\n</h2><p>Watson said investigators on the property Friday were &ldquo;starting to dig.&rdquo; Police held the scene overnight and continued investigating in the morning \u2013 Watson said they &ldquo;needed light&rdquo; to work.\n\n\n\n</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re treating it as seriously as we can,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;You know, you can&rsquo;t leave any stone unturned in these incidents, so we just want to make sure that we are doing our due diligence.&rdquo;<br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>This story has been updated to add new information. COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2212 Viral TikTok videos showing a rug&nbsp;found buried in a Columbus woman&rsquo;s backyard triggered&nbsp;a <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/runeecho.com%5C/it-was-just-a-rug-police-conclude-search-after-columbus-womans-backyard-discovery-goes-viral%5C/%5C%22" title='\"&lsquo;It' was just a rug police conclude search after columbus woman backyard discovery goes viral>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></video></figure></p></figure></h2></a></p></a></p></a></p></em></p>